356 CVI. GESNERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Chirita. 
lobes acute. Corollatubular-funnel-shaped or ventricose, middle-sized or large 
(exceptin C. hamosa) ; tube not very narrow below nor gibbous ; limb 2-lipped, 
lobes 5, rounded. Stamens 2 perfect, 2-3 barren, filaments flattened, genicu- 
late; anthers usually applied to the stigma ; cells 2, divaricate, ovate, often 
confluent. Ovary linear ; style short or long, stigma (when young) oblique pel- 
tate, notched on the lower margin; in age upper margin usually produced 
oblong bifid ; placentz inflexed to the axis, then revolute bearing the ovules. 
Capsule elongate linear (smaller, slender in C. hamosa), sessile, loculicidally 
2-valved to the base, valves 2-partite in the next season. Seeds ellipsoid, 
smooth, sometimes with a minute boss or process at the end; testa often 
striated, reticulate.—Species 25, mainly Indian; a few W. Malayan and 
Chinese. 
The foregoing character does not include the Malayan and Chinese species. The 
genus, even thus narrowly defined, is with difficulty distinguished from Didymocarpus. 
The stigma is said to be subentire in Didymocarpus, bifid in Chirita, which is roughly 
true; in Chirita it varies greatly with age. 
Sect. 1. Buchirita. Calyz large or middle-sized. Corolla 1} in. or 
more, funnel-shaped, tubular towards the base, mouth not very obliqne nor 
unequally lipped. Capsule more than 2 in. long, not stalked. 
* Species of Ceylon. 
1. C. Moonii, Garda. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 479; leaves 
whorled lanceolate or elliptic silky villous on both surfaces, peduncles scat- 
tered 1-fid., calyx sub-5-partite silky villous, corolla 24 in. and upwards. 
Bot. Mag. t. 4405. Martynia lanceolata, Moon Cat. Pl. Ceyl. 45. 
Cryton ; Hantam, alt. 4000 ft., Thwaites, Wight, &c. . 
Stem 2-3 ft., branched, villous upwards. Leaves 4 or 8 in a whorl, 5 by 2 in., 
minutely denticulate, densely softly hairy, and shining brown in the dried specimens; 
petiole 3 in. Peduncles 4-2 in.; bracts 2, small, deciduous near their middle. Sepals 
3 in. and upwards, narrowly lanceolate. Corolla widely ventricose, mouth 2 1n. 
across, minutely hairy without, purple, yellow-striped within. Filaments (fertile and 
sterile) villous at the top. Ovary glabrous; stigma obliquely l-sided, shortly bifid. 
Capsule 4 in. and upwards. 
2. C. Walkeri, Garda. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi 480; leaves 
ternate or opposite elliptic acuminate or lanceolate villous on both surfaces, 
peduncles 5-1-fld., calyx sub-5-partite villous, corolla 14 in. C. Walkerue, 
Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4327. 
CEYLON ; Walker. T 
Stem 2 ft., branched, villous upwards. Leaves 5 by 2 in., as of C. Moonu, but 
less densely hairy; petiole 4-14 in. Peduncles 4-2 in., once or twice dichotomous, 
rarely 1-fld.; bracts small. Calyx 4-2 in. Capsule 24-5 in.—Closely allied to C. 
Moonii, which differs in the 1-fld. peduncles and larger corolla. 
Van. parviflora; calyx 4-4 in. corolla 1 in., capsule 2 in. Var. B, Thwaites 
Enum. 207.— Ceylon; Thwaites. 
.3. C. zeylanica, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4182; leaves opposite ovate or 
elliptic acuminate strigose on both surfaces, peduncles many-fld., calyx sub- 
5-partite glabrous, corolla 1 in. C. communis, Gardn. in Cale. Journ. 
Nat. Hist. vi. 481. 
CEYLON ; up to 5000 ft. alt. common; Gardner, &c. 
Stem 18 in., branched, strigose upwards. Leaves 3 by 2 in. ovate, or 4j by 2 in. 
elliptic, minutely denticulate, sparsely strigo:e; nerves 9 pair, hirsute beneath; 
